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Explore the nominees and categories for the 2024 Independent Spirit Awards, celebrating excellence in independent film and television.

Whether it’s leather jackets loaded with meaning or Emma Stone’s enormous sleeves, costumes are crucial to the look and feel of a movie. We look at the best onscreen clothing of the year

Leonardo DiCaprio grimaced. Mia Goth killed. Margot Robbie had at least three existential crises. But which of their films came out on top? Our chief critic Clarisse Loughrey has counted down the very best movies of the year in cinema

It’s that horror film time of year, but Halloween scenes cast their spell in classics as diverse as Meet Me in St Louis, Mean Girls and ET

French cinema risks being sacrificed on the altar of market forces; it would be an incalculable loss, says the journalist and critic Zach Schonfeld

Ben Whishaw and Franz Rogowski are brilliantly believable in Ira Sachs’s exploration of a gay marriage that’s challenged when one partner has a passionate affair with a young woman

The year’s most provocative film sees a gay couple (played by Ben Whishaw and Franz Rogowski) left shattered when one of them embarks on an affair with a woman. Tom Murray speaks to Rogowski and director Ira Sachs about criticism, sex scenes and our fascination with love triangles

Director’s latest film has more explicit scenes than almost all modern studio-backed features

From K-Bran twiddling Poirot’s whiskers at Michelle Yeoh in A Haunting in Venice to John David Washington battling to save humanity in Disney’s much anticipated The Creator, we round up the 13 best films to see in September

This turbulent story of a love triangle in Paris is sensitive and superbly acted

In today’s newsletter: The former energy secretary starts his fifth cabinet post in the past year, but questions remain about his military nous